The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Band 14 |
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... writing it , gave us such an idea of our good old friend , that upon the reading of it there was not a dry eye in the club . Sir Andrew , opening the book , found it to be a collection of acts of par- liament . There was in particular ...
... writing it , gave us such an idea of our good old friend , that upon the reading of it there was not a dry eye in the club . Sir Andrew , opening the book , found it to be a collection of acts of par- liament . There was in particular ...
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... writers of news say , that , when he has had a customer with an advertisement of an apprent.ce or a wife run away , he has desired the advertiser to compose himself a little before he dictated the de- scription of the offender : for ...
... writers of news say , that , when he has had a customer with an advertisement of an apprent.ce or a wife run away , he has desired the advertiser to compose himself a little before he dictated the de- scription of the offender : for ...
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... writer , I have been entertained with the exploits of a river god , or have been forced to attend a Fury in her ... writing , by substituting in the place of these antiquated fables the superstitious mythology which prevails among ...
... writer , I have been entertained with the exploits of a river god , or have been forced to attend a Fury in her ... writing , by substituting in the place of these antiquated fables the superstitious mythology which prevails among ...
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... writers of the age in which he lived , has left us , in his letter to Hispulla , his wife's aunt , one of the most agreeable family pieces of this kind I have ever met with . I shall end this discourse with a translation of it ; and I ...
... writers of the age in which he lived , has left us , in his letter to Hispulla , his wife's aunt , one of the most agreeable family pieces of this kind I have ever met with . I shall end this discourse with a translation of it ; and I ...
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... writing to you , upon a certain lascivious manner which all our young gentlemen use in public , and examine our eyes with a petulancy in their own which is a downright affront to modesty . A disdainful look on such an occasion is ...
... writing to you , upon a certain lascivious manner which all our young gentlemen use in public , and examine our eyes with a petulancy in their own which is a downright affront to modesty . A disdainful look on such an occasion is ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acquainted admirer Anacreon animals appear beautiful black tower Blank body Britomartis character Cicero cities of London city of Westminster club consider conversation creatures CREECH death desire discourse divine drachmas endeavour entertain epigram excellent eyes fancy father favour forbear fortune Freeport gentleman give hand happiness hear heard heart honour hope human humble servant humour husband infinite JUNE 23 kind lady learned letter live look manner marriage matter mean Menander mentioned mind nature never obliged observed occasion OVID paper particular passion person pleased pleasure poet poetical justice praise present Procris racters readers reason shoeing horn short sorrow soul speak species Spect SPECTATOR talk Tatler tell thing thou thought tion town VIRG virtue virtuous whole woman worthy writ writing young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 128 - No more ; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep : perchance to dream : ay, there's the rub ; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause...
Seite 126 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man; To-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost; And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Seite 128 - TO be— or not to be — that is the question ; Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The stings and arrows of outrageous fortune — Or to take arms against a sea of troubles ; And, by opposing, end them...
Seite 128 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin...
Seite 24 - And when we consider the infinite Power and Wisdom of the Maker, we have reason to think, that it is suitable to the magnificent Harmony of the Universe, and the great Design and infinite Goodness of the Architect, that the Species of Creatures should also, by gentle degrees, Ascend upward from us toward his infinite Perfection, as we see they gradually descend from us downwards...
Seite 243 - There is no question but the universe has certain bounds set to it : but when we consider that it is the work of infinite power, prompted by infinite goodness, with an infinite space...
Seite 209 - The dialect of conversation is now-a-days so swelled with vanity and compliment, and so surfeited (as I may say) of expressions of kindness and respect, that if a man that lived an age or two ago should return into the world again, he would really want a dictionary to help him to understand his own language...
Seite 245 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; And backward, but I cannot perceive him: On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: He hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him: But he knoweth the way that I take: When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Seite 128 - But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
Seite 24 - ... in all the visible corporeal world, we see no chasms, or gaps. All quite down from us the descent is by easy steps, and a continued series of things, that in each remove differ very little one from the other.